1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10,544 --> 00:00:12,446 The video you are about to see 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,349 has never been seen by the public. 5 00:00:22,090 --> 00:00:25,893 It was shot 20 years ago by FBI surveillance specialist 6 00:00:25,926 --> 00:00:29,797 Rick Sutton from the 25th floor of the Bureau's 7 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:31,732 New York headquarters. 8 00:00:46,714 --> 00:00:49,117 The voices are those of Specialist Sutton 9 00:00:49,150 --> 00:00:51,619 and other FBI personnel. 10 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:25,446 At this point, Specialist Sutton is forced 11 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:28,849 to evacuate along with the entire Bureau. 12 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:34,121 The FBI office at 26 Federal Plaza, 13 00:02:34,222 --> 00:02:37,725 the largest in the nation, empties. 14 00:02:37,758 --> 00:02:41,128 It is 9:12 AM. 15 00:02:41,229 --> 00:02:43,631 Despite losing their command center 16 00:02:43,664 --> 00:02:46,133 and virtually all their resources, 17 00:02:46,234 --> 00:02:51,004 these FBI agents must mobilize. Now. 18 00:03:03,851 --> 00:03:06,854 September 11th, 2001 19 00:03:06,887 --> 00:03:09,790 is primary day in New York City. 20 00:03:09,823 --> 00:03:13,294 Public schools are just starting a new year. 21 00:03:13,327 --> 00:03:15,296 The Yankees are on a roll 22 00:03:15,329 --> 00:03:19,567 and will host the White Sox that night. 23 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,101 I was driving down through the city, 24 00:03:21,134 --> 00:03:24,137 and I was singing along to the radio. 25 00:03:24,171 --> 00:03:28,141 I was just approaching to enter the Lincoln Tunnel. 26 00:03:28,175 --> 00:03:31,745 I was sitting at my desk at 26 Federal Plaza. 27 00:03:31,779 --> 00:03:33,947 I heard a huge explosion. 28 00:03:45,326 --> 00:03:50,531 My secretary started screaming, "World Trade Center!" 29 00:03:52,433 --> 00:03:57,204 I saw this black smoke billowing from the north tower. 30 00:03:57,305 --> 00:04:02,042 They interrupted the music to say a jetliner 31 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:03,777 had just crashed into the World Trade Center. 32 00:04:03,811 --> 00:04:08,416 New York has seen nothing like this since 1945 when a B25 33 00:04:08,449 --> 00:04:11,752 Bomber accidently flew into the Empire State Building. 34 00:04:11,785 --> 00:04:13,654 And I was like, hit the siren, 35 00:04:13,687 --> 00:04:17,391 throw the light up on the roof and jet down Broadway. 36 00:04:23,030 --> 00:04:26,367 My phone rang in the car. It was my boss, Barry Mawn, 37 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,337 who was the assistant director of New York at the time, 38 00:04:29,370 --> 00:04:31,004 and he said, "I'm going to the scene. 39 00:04:31,038 --> 00:04:34,775 Meet me there." So, I made record time. 40 00:04:34,808 --> 00:04:37,478 Going down the West Side Highway. 41 00:04:37,511 --> 00:04:40,381 Red lights and siren. 42 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:52,225 The streets are teaming with panic and people evacuating. 43 00:04:52,259 --> 00:04:55,162 It was a very chaotic scene. 44 00:04:58,599 --> 00:05:00,934 My purpose was to get into the lobby of tower one 45 00:05:00,968 --> 00:05:03,036 because that's where I was told the police department 46 00:05:03,070 --> 00:05:04,137 and fire department 47 00:05:04,171 --> 00:05:07,775 were meeting as the kind of initial mustering point. 48 00:05:15,182 --> 00:05:17,250 I grab the first police officer I could. 49 00:05:17,284 --> 00:05:20,120 I remember saying to him, "Hey, guy. 50 00:05:20,153 --> 00:05:21,555 Where is the mobilization point?" 51 00:05:21,589 --> 00:05:25,192 He said, "Pal, I have no fucking idea." 52 00:05:25,225 --> 00:05:28,729 One note of concern here at the FBI already, 53 00:05:28,762 --> 00:05:31,399 their field office in New York 54 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:34,502 is located very, very close to the World Trade Center. 55 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:42,776 I saw a huge Ryder yellow rental truck 56 00:05:42,810 --> 00:05:44,978 parked in front of the building 57 00:05:45,012 --> 00:05:47,147 and I said, "Oh, my God." 58 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:48,949 And we know the history or Ryder rental trucks 59 00:05:48,982 --> 00:05:53,153 when it comes to truck bombs, and you know, IEDs. 60 00:05:53,186 --> 00:05:54,287 It was a Ryder truck 61 00:05:54,321 --> 00:05:56,156 that exploded in the underground garage 62 00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:59,292 of the World Trade Center eight years earlier. 63 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:05,065 26th Federal Plaza is not safe at this time. 64 00:06:05,098 --> 00:06:06,434 They did not know if it was a target. 65 00:06:06,434 --> 00:06:07,968 If it was being targeted. 66 00:06:09,503 --> 00:06:13,340 We all had the same goal, and that is to get out. 67 00:06:21,148 --> 00:06:24,752 Everyone in the FBI office is immediately forced 68 00:06:24,785 --> 00:06:26,520 to abandon their desks, 69 00:06:26,554 --> 00:06:30,924 leaving behind computers, files, secure phone lines. 70 00:06:30,958 --> 00:06:35,095 Virtually every tool they have to do their jobs. 71 00:06:48,509 --> 00:06:51,479 And all the agents are unnerved. 72 00:06:51,479 --> 00:06:55,282 What did we miss? Could we have prevented this? 73 00:06:58,285 --> 00:07:02,055 And from all directions were your peers, 74 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:03,591 your FBI colleagues. 75 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:08,195 It was at that point we were instructed 76 00:07:08,228 --> 00:07:11,865 to go to the playground in Chinatown 77 00:07:11,899 --> 00:07:15,302 and that was our rally point for headcount. 78 00:07:15,335 --> 00:07:19,873 The FBI has only a loose contingency plan for disasters 79 00:07:19,907 --> 00:07:24,411 and the New York Office is already facing huge demands. 80 00:07:24,512 --> 00:07:26,847 Locate and organize its agents, 81 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,518 rescue as many people as possible from the towers 82 00:07:30,551 --> 00:07:35,956 and launch what they know will become a massive investigation. 83 00:07:35,989 --> 00:07:40,327 But as they try to do all three, simultaneously, 84 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,164 minutes are ticking by. 85 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:50,270 The building was groaning louder and louder. 86 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:52,272 It was like the building was crying. 87 00:07:56,744 --> 00:07:59,613 As you looked at it, 88 00:07:59,647 --> 00:08:01,348 it kind of rumble, rumble, rumble, 89 00:08:01,381 --> 00:08:04,852 rumble after it made it's left sway, right sway. 90 00:08:04,885 --> 00:08:06,687 (groans) 91 00:08:07,655 --> 00:08:12,159 Then it got louder and louder and the ground was moving. 92 00:08:12,192 --> 00:08:15,596 And it made a slight like heave up. 93 00:08:15,629 --> 00:08:18,298 Almost as if it was taking its last breath. 94 00:08:22,069 --> 00:08:26,273 And all of a sudden, you can just hear this huge kaboom! 95 00:08:28,976 --> 00:08:32,646 (yelling and screaming) 96 00:08:35,716 --> 00:08:38,819 And I could just hear each floor dropping. 97 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:41,755 (shushing noises) 98 00:08:44,592 --> 00:08:49,763 The ground just began to shake. 99 00:08:49,797 --> 00:08:53,601 (yelling) 100 00:08:56,136 --> 00:09:01,609 Oh, shit! Run! Run! 101 00:09:01,609 --> 00:09:04,311 If the New York Office hadn't done a rollcall 102 00:09:04,344 --> 00:09:06,847 that took the time it had... 103 00:09:09,116 --> 00:09:13,186 the agents easily could have been inside the crash area, 104 00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:16,624 if not inside the tower itself. 105 00:09:16,624 --> 00:09:20,460 (yelling) 106 00:09:37,344 --> 00:09:40,513 Is there an exit here? 107 00:09:40,547 --> 00:09:43,684 Shut the gate! Turn off the gas! 108 00:09:49,790 --> 00:09:53,460 (coughing) 109 00:09:58,298 --> 00:09:59,900 What happened? 110 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:04,237 It collapsed. The top floors collapsed down. 111 00:10:05,839 --> 00:10:08,709 I saw it blow, and then ran like hell. 112 00:10:08,742 --> 00:10:12,780 Thank God, 69, but I can still run. 113 00:10:15,649 --> 00:10:18,852 There's got to be firemen trapped back there, though. 114 00:10:24,491 --> 00:10:29,629 I just remember staring at it and all I could say was, 115 00:10:29,663 --> 00:10:31,665 the World Trade Center's gone. 116 00:10:31,699 --> 00:10:34,501 Both of them, gone. It was empty space. 117 00:10:38,271 --> 00:10:41,308 (blowing nose) 118 00:10:46,914 --> 00:10:49,182 When it settled, you could hear in the background 119 00:10:49,216 --> 00:10:54,955 the chirping that was so loud from the World Trade Center. 120 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:57,557 Almost like cicadas in the summer. 121 00:11:02,796 --> 00:11:06,900 Except with a mechanical pitch. 122 00:11:09,402 --> 00:11:12,039 It was the trackers on the firemen. 123 00:11:12,072 --> 00:11:13,373 (Coughing) 124 00:11:13,406 --> 00:11:16,309 It's the sound that the protection gear 125 00:11:16,343 --> 00:11:19,446 makes when the fireman stops moving. 126 00:11:30,991 --> 00:11:33,093 (coughing) 127 00:11:33,126 --> 00:11:34,762 You got a spare mask? 128 00:11:34,762 --> 00:11:36,529 Yeah. Come inside so I can look at your head. 129 00:11:36,563 --> 00:11:37,798 I'm fine, really. You sure? 130 00:11:37,831 --> 00:11:41,168 Thank you, yeah. Thank you, very much. 131 00:11:41,201 --> 00:11:42,836 The world is in shock. 132 00:11:42,870 --> 00:11:46,774 New York is paralyzed and the FBI, 133 00:11:46,774 --> 00:11:52,379 whose mission has only become more urgent, is in disarray. 134 00:11:52,412 --> 00:11:55,082 Agents are unable to communicate with 135 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:57,684 or even locate each other. 136 00:12:01,922 --> 00:12:05,826 Instinctively, I turned and started running up 137 00:12:05,859 --> 00:12:10,798 Vesey Street and I rand to where my office was. 138 00:12:10,831 --> 00:12:13,566 My secretary, I don't think she recognized me. 139 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,268 Like everyone else, we look like, 140 00:12:15,302 --> 00:12:18,238 you know, zombies, with little white dust on us. 141 00:12:18,271 --> 00:12:21,374 I went into the bathroom and cleared my airways 142 00:12:21,408 --> 00:12:25,045 and tried to clean up my face and hands the best I could. 143 00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:27,614 A group of FBI agents had commandeered, 144 00:12:27,647 --> 00:12:29,016 you know, a brokerage. 145 00:12:29,049 --> 00:12:30,884 I think it was Morgan Stanley or somebody, 146 00:12:30,918 --> 00:12:34,021 had an office across the street from the Trade Center. 147 00:12:39,893 --> 00:12:41,594 Why don't you come with us, too. 148 00:12:41,628 --> 00:12:44,131 This is no place to be now, pal. 149 00:12:45,833 --> 00:12:48,168 Recognize the technology then, 150 00:12:48,201 --> 00:12:50,838 telecommunication technology was much different. 151 00:12:50,838 --> 00:12:55,242 There's a phone bank of six or seven payphones. 152 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:58,478 Had a cop stand by the phones so no one used them. 153 00:12:58,511 --> 00:13:01,148 (yelling) 154 00:13:01,181 --> 00:13:03,183 I'll find the other brother! Let's go! 155 00:13:03,216 --> 00:13:05,385 Get these guys down to fresh air. 156 00:13:05,418 --> 00:13:07,620 We opened the blinds, 157 00:13:07,654 --> 00:13:09,923 I'm talking to Washington, and I said, 158 00:13:09,957 --> 00:13:12,692 "What's going on there?" And they had the bad report 159 00:13:12,725 --> 00:13:15,062 that the Supreme Court had just been hit. 160 00:13:17,264 --> 00:13:20,868 It is becoming apparent no one anywhere 161 00:13:20,868 --> 00:13:22,402 knows what's happening. 162 00:13:22,435 --> 00:13:26,039 The only thing that's clear is the New York office 163 00:13:26,073 --> 00:13:30,177 of the FBI must find out who did this. 164 00:13:32,612 --> 00:13:35,015 Debris is falling from the sky. 165 00:13:35,048 --> 00:13:36,649 All of the buildings in the immediate 166 00:13:36,683 --> 00:13:40,020 area were being evacuated. 167 00:13:40,053 --> 00:13:42,755 You have to have a nerve center. 168 00:13:42,789 --> 00:13:44,691 We had to have a location 169 00:13:44,724 --> 00:13:47,427 and we had to have one very quickly, 170 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:48,728 so I was given the assignment 171 00:13:48,761 --> 00:13:52,032 to find a suitable forward command post. 172 00:13:52,065 --> 00:13:56,203 We're not going to go anyplace which is identifiable 173 00:13:56,236 --> 00:14:00,908 as being a law enforcement or the FBI. 174 00:14:10,050 --> 00:14:12,752 And I said, it had to be large enough 175 00:14:12,785 --> 00:14:14,754 to house a lot of people. 176 00:14:14,787 --> 00:14:16,456 I want it secured 177 00:14:16,489 --> 00:14:21,962 and I want it fairly close to ground zero. 178 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:25,065 The agents, they reluctantly said, 179 00:14:25,098 --> 00:14:29,002 "Well, we could go to the 26th Street Garage." 180 00:14:29,036 --> 00:14:30,971 At first, I was actually thinking 181 00:14:31,004 --> 00:14:32,039 how the hell is this gonna work? 182 00:14:32,072 --> 00:14:33,706 I was a little bit skeptical. 183 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:35,775 It's not going to be ideal. 184 00:14:35,808 --> 00:14:40,380 The 26th Street Garage is the greatest untold story of 9/11. 185 00:14:44,851 --> 00:14:49,089 Both, both Twin Tower buildings came down. 186 00:14:49,122 --> 00:14:51,858 We made the decision to walk to the 26th Street Garage 187 00:14:53,793 --> 00:14:55,595 and as we're walking over there, 188 00:14:55,628 --> 00:14:58,231 we're still seeing hundreds, 189 00:14:58,265 --> 00:15:01,534 if not thousands of people, still moving their way north. 190 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:07,040 But also, we saw hundreds of boats 191 00:15:07,074 --> 00:15:09,977 coming from New Jersey over towards Manhattan, 192 00:15:09,977 --> 00:15:13,813 trying to help people get off, and it looked Dunkirk. 193 00:15:18,218 --> 00:15:21,321 That's when we first started hearing the military jets. 194 00:15:21,354 --> 00:15:25,392 I knew it was war. 195 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:26,493 When we first got there, 196 00:15:26,526 --> 00:15:29,096 SWAT was setting up command and control 197 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:32,499 and securing the area with razor wire. 198 00:15:32,532 --> 00:15:34,634 They were arming those of us that were outside 199 00:15:34,667 --> 00:15:36,336 to set up a perimeter. 200 00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:40,373 We were given long arms, so shot guns and MP5s 201 00:15:40,407 --> 00:15:43,676 and MP10s which looks like a little machine gun. 202 00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:45,212 I remember walking up the ramp. 203 00:15:45,245 --> 00:15:47,880 You know, you can smell oil and small brake fluid. 204 00:15:47,914 --> 00:15:52,285 Opening the door to this massive space. 205 00:15:55,255 --> 00:15:58,025 It wasn't so much the smells that bothered you. 206 00:15:58,025 --> 00:15:59,792 It was the visual. 207 00:15:59,826 --> 00:16:02,562 The garage where the cars are, where you get your oil changed, 208 00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:04,497 where fenders hanging off, 209 00:16:04,531 --> 00:16:06,799 you get the side light replaced. 210 00:16:06,833 --> 00:16:08,901 It was hard to imagine this was going to be 211 00:16:08,935 --> 00:16:12,239 the epicenter of the investigation. 212 00:16:12,272 --> 00:16:15,642 As agents arrive on foot by the hundreds, 213 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:21,881 FBI logistic teams make space by towing out 500 cars. 214 00:16:21,914 --> 00:16:26,553 It was a grease monkey location but, you know, ugly's okay. 215 00:16:26,586 --> 00:16:29,322 No one is looking for the Waldorf Historia 216 00:16:29,356 --> 00:16:31,158 in the middle of a crisis. 217 00:16:31,191 --> 00:16:35,228 FBI teams are scouring the city for office equipment 218 00:16:35,262 --> 00:16:38,898 and even buying it on their own credit cards. 219 00:16:38,931 --> 00:16:40,967 People trying to put tables up so people 220 00:16:41,068 --> 00:16:44,337 would have somewhere to work, get computers in there. 221 00:16:44,371 --> 00:16:49,142 They had a number of tables lined up with folding chairs. 222 00:16:49,176 --> 00:16:52,545 They set up the computers. They ran the lines. 223 00:16:52,579 --> 00:16:56,449 Banks of telephones. Miles and miles of wire. 224 00:16:56,483 --> 00:16:59,719 And it actually looked like a big hall of spaghetti. 225 00:16:59,752 --> 00:17:03,523 I mean, there are wires hanging from all over the place, 226 00:17:03,556 --> 00:17:08,361 but they were necessary because regular phones weren't working. 227 00:17:08,395 --> 00:17:12,865 It was just logistically an overwhelming undertaking. 228 00:17:12,899 --> 00:17:17,637 As were now seeing the 26th Street Garage take its form, 229 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:22,209 it was almost like an FBI baby being made in the womb 230 00:17:22,242 --> 00:17:24,644 because everything that the full-grown 231 00:17:24,677 --> 00:17:27,580 FBI mechanism had Downtown was now coming to form. 232 00:17:27,614 --> 00:17:29,582 It was getting legs, it was getting arms, 233 00:17:29,616 --> 00:17:31,918 it was breathing, it was starting to stretch out. 234 00:17:31,951 --> 00:17:34,454 There were different areas for the bosses to sit, 235 00:17:34,487 --> 00:17:37,690 for management to sit, for the case agents to sit. 236 00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:48,501 Incredibly, within just a few hours, 237 00:17:48,535 --> 00:17:53,005 the garage begins to function as an FBI command post. 238 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:56,443 The purpose of the garage 239 00:17:56,476 --> 00:17:59,712 is not only just to act as a communications channel 240 00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:02,815 but to digest all the information coming in. 241 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:12,159 The manifest for the planes, 242 00:18:12,159 --> 00:18:14,894 they were obtained fairly quickly from the airlines 243 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:18,465 and started to be vetted out both through agency files, 244 00:18:18,498 --> 00:18:22,535 FBI files and getting multiple hits on the subjects. 245 00:18:24,804 --> 00:18:28,475 On 9/11, one of the passports of one of the hijackers 246 00:18:28,508 --> 00:18:32,379 was found a block or so from one of the towers in the debris 247 00:18:32,412 --> 00:18:34,514 and that was brought into the command center, 248 00:18:34,547 --> 00:18:38,050 so you were, fairly early on, identifying 249 00:18:38,084 --> 00:18:42,422 who the hijackers were but you wanted everyone else. 250 00:18:45,024 --> 00:18:47,360 You know, we photographed everything, 251 00:18:47,394 --> 00:18:49,496 including aerial mapping, 252 00:18:49,529 --> 00:18:52,732 photographs of all of Ground Zero. 253 00:18:52,765 --> 00:18:56,269 All of that information was funneled back to the garage. 254 00:18:57,537 --> 00:18:59,572 I was involved with a lead group. 255 00:18:59,606 --> 00:19:02,775 Any information that they found in the investigation, 256 00:19:02,809 --> 00:19:06,413 whether it be the passport, the flight manifest, 257 00:19:06,446 --> 00:19:10,517 any information that the lead investigators wanted 258 00:19:10,550 --> 00:19:12,118 followed up on or needed, 259 00:19:12,219 --> 00:19:15,988 the lead desk would pass out a packet. 260 00:19:16,022 --> 00:19:17,524 You know, like "Mission: Impossible," 261 00:19:17,557 --> 00:19:20,126 you open it up and there's a picture of an individual 262 00:19:20,227 --> 00:19:24,564 and in it would be how they're associated with the case. 263 00:19:24,597 --> 00:19:28,568 They could have been in Mohamed Atta's address book, 264 00:19:28,601 --> 00:19:31,838 or it could have been this is a number that one of hijackers 265 00:19:31,871 --> 00:19:34,541 called 15 times in the first week. 266 00:19:34,574 --> 00:19:38,545 Uh, so we would go out and pay a visit to that location. 267 00:19:38,578 --> 00:19:43,082 The Boston office had found a briefcase at the airport, 268 00:19:43,115 --> 00:19:48,688 and it had some information as to what they were going to do. 269 00:19:51,991 --> 00:19:53,826 A handwritten letter was contained 270 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:55,628 in Mohamed Atta's briefcase 271 00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:58,598 that was basically a declaration of, 272 00:19:58,631 --> 00:20:01,067 "We who are about to die for the cause 273 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:04,070 remain strong and resolved." 274 00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:07,940 It was that type of rhetoric, to sacrifice their own lives 275 00:20:07,974 --> 00:20:13,980 for the purpose of freeing up the Arabic world 276 00:20:14,013 --> 00:20:17,484 from the great Satan, the United States 277 00:20:17,517 --> 00:20:20,453 and that same letter was recovered in Shanksville 278 00:20:20,487 --> 00:20:22,188 during the crime scene search 279 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:25,492 and there was a third copy of that same letter found 280 00:20:25,525 --> 00:20:28,227 so that was really a key piece of evidence that, 281 00:20:28,261 --> 00:20:30,863 you know, linked all of them together as well. 282 00:20:34,534 --> 00:20:36,035 Clues are coming in. 283 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:38,137 Names are going up. Charts are being made. 284 00:20:38,170 --> 00:20:42,675 Whiteboards are being drawn. Lines are being connected. 285 00:20:42,709 --> 00:20:44,010 And so that was broken down 286 00:20:44,043 --> 00:20:46,746 initially in a handwritten whiteboard 287 00:20:46,779 --> 00:20:49,882 but then as information was refined 288 00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:52,184 and identified more specifically, 289 00:20:52,218 --> 00:20:55,922 then it was memorialized in writing and charts 290 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:58,057 which served a very useful purpose 291 00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,794 in terms of comparison of one flight against another. 292 00:21:01,828 --> 00:21:03,696 Who was together? Who wasn't together? 293 00:21:03,730 --> 00:21:07,534 Once we had the connection between the actual hijackers, 294 00:21:07,567 --> 00:21:11,638 to now begin the process of doing a complete vertical, 295 00:21:11,671 --> 00:21:14,674 a dissection, if you will, of that human being. 296 00:21:14,707 --> 00:21:18,210 Their entire life. You know, where they were born, 297 00:21:18,244 --> 00:21:21,047 where they were raised. Where they went to school. 298 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,382 When did they come to the United States? 299 00:21:22,415 --> 00:21:25,352 Where did they stay? Pulling reams and reams 300 00:21:25,352 --> 00:21:29,422 and reams of phone records and financial records. 301 00:21:29,456 --> 00:21:31,424 How did they operate in the United States? 302 00:21:31,458 --> 00:21:32,525 How long were they here? 303 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:35,395 You were able to see the fruits of your labor. 304 00:21:35,428 --> 00:21:37,364 You were able to see all the information 305 00:21:37,364 --> 00:21:39,799 that you were bringing actually come to fruition and form. 306 00:21:39,832 --> 00:21:41,200 You were seeing links being made 307 00:21:41,233 --> 00:21:42,535 based on work you had done. 308 00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:48,741 The 9/11 investigation is already becoming the largest 309 00:21:48,775 --> 00:21:52,011 and most complex in the Bureau's history. 310 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:56,082 It's all hand on deck, around the clock. 311 00:21:56,115 --> 00:21:58,651 At the same time, the New York Office 312 00:21:58,685 --> 00:22:02,889 is also responsible for thousands of other cases, 313 00:22:02,922 --> 00:22:04,557 and they can't be dropped. 314 00:22:06,726 --> 00:22:09,629 It didn't matter if you were on a Russian organized crime squad 315 00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:11,097 or working the Gambino family 316 00:22:11,130 --> 00:22:12,832 or you were following Russian spies, 317 00:22:12,865 --> 00:22:15,802 you had undercovers out there whose lives were on the line 318 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:17,504 that you had to worry about. 319 00:22:17,537 --> 00:22:20,139 You had handlers that needed to be talked to. 320 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:24,811 You had victims that needed justice. 321 00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,414 It's very hard to tell an FBI agent 322 00:22:27,447 --> 00:22:30,517 you need to switch this other thing off. 323 00:22:30,550 --> 00:22:33,953 My shift, for example, was 6am to 6pm. 324 00:22:33,986 --> 00:22:36,589 Nobody got days off. There were no days off. 325 00:22:36,623 --> 00:22:39,792 We had a job to do, and we were going to do it. 326 00:22:39,826 --> 00:22:41,861 You didn't want to leave. 327 00:22:41,894 --> 00:22:45,197 At first, you wanted to just never pause 328 00:22:45,231 --> 00:22:46,933 from the work that you were doing, 329 00:22:46,966 --> 00:22:49,936 and you got the greatest comfort from being around 330 00:22:49,969 --> 00:22:52,505 literally hundreds and hundreds of people 331 00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:54,641 who felt the same way. 332 00:22:54,674 --> 00:22:58,811 They were doing the same thing with that level of commitment. 333 00:22:58,845 --> 00:23:00,880 After an 18-hour day, 334 00:23:00,913 --> 00:23:04,784 I had a lot of difficulty falling to sleep. 335 00:23:04,817 --> 00:23:10,022 That is when I would stop and think of what had occurred, 336 00:23:10,056 --> 00:23:14,326 what the losses were to firemen, police 337 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:19,131 and that caused me a lot of anxiety, stress. 338 00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:21,534 Just thinking about all that. 339 00:23:21,568 --> 00:23:25,337 It's not the kind of work you can walk away from. 340 00:23:25,371 --> 00:23:28,107 A lot of people, for a time, were working day and night 341 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:35,114 because the stakes were high on both sides. 342 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:39,752 As agents frantically begin to unravel the 9/11 plot, 343 00:23:39,786 --> 00:23:42,254 another major threat emerges. 344 00:23:42,288 --> 00:23:46,993 The second wave of attacks may be coming. 345 00:23:47,026 --> 00:23:49,662 You're thinking, we've got to solve this case. 346 00:23:49,696 --> 00:23:52,965 That synapse is firing, years of habit. 347 00:23:52,999 --> 00:23:56,068 That's what they've been raised to do 348 00:23:56,102 --> 00:23:57,336 but it was also crystal clear 349 00:23:57,369 --> 00:23:59,706 that they had to stop the next thing. 350 00:23:59,739 --> 00:24:04,744 What was the next thing? Where would the next thing be? 351 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:08,581 Is it possible that it could be bigger or worse? 352 00:24:08,615 --> 00:24:10,917 We're all concerned. 353 00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:12,885 Was this the tip of the iceberg? 354 00:24:12,919 --> 00:24:14,654 Was there more to follow? 355 00:24:14,687 --> 00:24:18,257 You had the Pentagon attack and, of course, 356 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:20,593 the plane that went down in Shanksville, Flight 93. 357 00:24:20,627 --> 00:24:24,564 So that's four major, major attacks all in one. 358 00:24:24,597 --> 00:24:27,967 What's to say there aren't five, six, ten, 12? 359 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,238 We have to find out whatever there is that one can find out 360 00:24:32,271 --> 00:24:35,241 so that if there is another plot on the way, 361 00:24:35,274 --> 00:24:38,911 whether today, tomorrow, next week, next month. 362 00:24:38,945 --> 00:24:40,379 We stop it. 363 00:24:43,182 --> 00:24:45,151 The clear assumption by federal lawmen 364 00:24:45,184 --> 00:24:47,554 is that these terrorists had help from accomplices 365 00:24:47,554 --> 00:24:49,856 who may still be in the United States. 366 00:24:49,889 --> 00:24:52,224 What is not is clear is whether those accomplices 367 00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:55,094 were only bit players in this historic assault 368 00:24:55,127 --> 00:24:56,563 or whether they may still have still 369 00:24:56,563 --> 00:24:58,865 to be launched terrorist plans of their own. 370 00:24:58,898 --> 00:25:00,600 The dust was still rising. 371 00:25:00,633 --> 00:25:03,603 There were two different mindsets. 372 00:25:03,636 --> 00:25:05,972 There was a brand-new FBI director. 373 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:08,174 His name was Robert Mueller, 374 00:25:08,207 --> 00:25:12,378 and he was a very exacting manager. 375 00:25:12,411 --> 00:25:15,047 He asked a million questions. 376 00:25:15,081 --> 00:25:19,418 Right after the World Trade Center attack, 377 00:25:19,451 --> 00:25:23,222 Robert Mueller came to the garage to see me. 378 00:25:23,255 --> 00:25:24,757 The director of the FBI 379 00:25:24,791 --> 00:25:27,193 who will subsequently introduce the Attorney General, 380 00:25:27,226 --> 00:25:30,630 but we are all very pleased and honored 381 00:25:30,663 --> 00:25:33,332 to have the director of the FBI, Bob Mueller here. 382 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,334 A morning meeting with Director Mueller 383 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,404 in the days after 9/11 was not just a meeting. 384 00:25:38,437 --> 00:25:40,139 It was a cross examination. 385 00:25:40,172 --> 00:25:41,741 This is a group that, you can see, 386 00:25:41,774 --> 00:25:46,478 turned this parking garage into a huge command post. 387 00:25:46,512 --> 00:25:49,448 So, when you kind of think of that personality, 388 00:25:49,481 --> 00:25:52,318 the ability to run that case from headquarters 389 00:25:52,351 --> 00:25:54,987 for somebody who wanted to be that hands-on, 390 00:25:55,021 --> 00:25:56,422 the way he was leaning. 391 00:25:56,455 --> 00:25:58,625 You should know this is a great, hardworking group 392 00:25:58,625 --> 00:26:00,793 that have been doing it every day 393 00:26:00,827 --> 00:26:04,230 without a day off working 12 to 16 hours. 394 00:26:04,263 --> 00:26:07,199 And he said that he was going 395 00:26:07,233 --> 00:26:10,236 to take the investigation back to Washington. 396 00:26:10,269 --> 00:26:12,271 With that, ladies and gentlemen, 397 00:26:12,304 --> 00:26:13,973 the director of the FBI. 398 00:26:14,006 --> 00:26:17,409 (applause) 399 00:26:17,443 --> 00:26:19,946 Despite the fact that thousands of leads 400 00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:21,814 are coming into the garage, 401 00:26:21,848 --> 00:26:24,651 and agents are working them as fast as they can. 402 00:26:24,651 --> 00:26:26,452 Three weeks ago, we were all doing something else. 403 00:26:26,485 --> 00:26:31,123 The entire operation is one administrative decision away 404 00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:33,225 from being shut down. 405 00:26:33,259 --> 00:26:35,895 And within 24 hours, we all pulled together. 406 00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:37,864 28 agencies. 407 00:26:37,897 --> 00:26:39,866 I argued against that. 408 00:26:39,899 --> 00:26:44,570 I said, "Director, you cannot run an investigation 409 00:26:44,671 --> 00:26:47,506 out of Washington. You don't have investigators." 410 00:26:47,539 --> 00:26:49,909 Disaster has produced any number of heroes. 411 00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:53,212 He said, "I am aware of that so I'm going to take half 412 00:26:53,245 --> 00:26:57,383 of your people down to Washington, DC." 413 00:26:57,416 --> 00:26:58,851 Which I argued against. 414 00:26:58,885 --> 00:27:03,690 So many heroes out there that we ought to applaud. 415 00:27:03,723 --> 00:27:07,760 But he was the director. He was my boss 416 00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:10,162 and he said that's the way it's going to happen. 417 00:27:12,765 --> 00:27:14,701 He made that decision despite our best effort 418 00:27:14,701 --> 00:27:16,302 to convince him not to. 419 00:27:16,335 --> 00:27:20,306 And we will, we will bring these individuals to justice. 420 00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:21,974 Now, let me introduce the Attorney General 421 00:27:22,008 --> 00:27:23,876 of the United States, John Ashcroft. 422 00:27:23,910 --> 00:27:27,146 New York had really strong feelings about this. 423 00:27:27,179 --> 00:27:29,448 There were too many people dead. 424 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,350 There was too much history 425 00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:36,355 and there had to be an element of we feel responsible 426 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,558 for this as well and we need to make it right. 427 00:27:49,869 --> 00:27:52,772 When you think of the New York office of the FBI, 428 00:27:52,805 --> 00:27:55,274 we did the World Trade Center Bomb. 429 00:27:55,307 --> 00:27:57,910 We did the case of the Blind Sheikh. 430 00:27:57,944 --> 00:28:00,379 We prevented all these other attacks. 431 00:28:00,412 --> 00:28:03,582 We know all these players. We've prosecuted them in court. 432 00:28:03,615 --> 00:28:07,954 We've obtained conviction. They're all doing life 433 00:28:07,987 --> 00:28:10,790 and we don't want something this important to be handed off 434 00:28:10,823 --> 00:28:12,759 to a bunch of people at headquarters. 435 00:28:14,794 --> 00:28:17,129 By the morning of September 13th, 436 00:28:17,163 --> 00:28:19,899 the garage is fighting two battles. 437 00:28:19,932 --> 00:28:21,934 One against the terrorists. 438 00:28:21,968 --> 00:28:26,138 Another to keep control of the investigation 439 00:28:26,172 --> 00:28:30,109 and it's determined to win both. 440 00:28:30,142 --> 00:28:34,046 They couldn't get together between Fort Meade and Langley 441 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,282 and the J. Edgar Hoover Building 442 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:39,418 but then when you went into that space at the garage, 443 00:28:39,451 --> 00:28:40,787 who was there? 444 00:28:40,787 --> 00:28:45,357 NSA, CIA, FBI, NYPD, the Defense Department. 445 00:28:45,391 --> 00:28:49,695 Men and women from 16 intelligence agencies 446 00:28:49,796 --> 00:28:51,463 and all the information was on the table. 447 00:28:51,497 --> 00:28:52,631 They could literally yell it 448 00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:55,501 across the room to the next guy, 449 00:28:55,534 --> 00:28:58,838 all there, doing it the way they were supposed to. 450 00:28:58,871 --> 00:29:00,807 They couldn't get it together in Washington, 451 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,510 but they could get it together in that garage. 452 00:29:04,543 --> 00:29:08,480 More than 25 agencies begin working together. 453 00:29:08,514 --> 00:29:12,084 They are outrunning Washington and determined to keep going. 454 00:29:12,118 --> 00:29:13,519 So many others want to thank you 455 00:29:13,552 --> 00:29:15,955 for the extraordinary response 456 00:29:15,988 --> 00:29:18,925 to this extraordinary act of terror. 457 00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:22,661 FBI Director Robert Mueller concedes. 458 00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:24,096 The team in New York 459 00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:26,966 will continue to be a major driver 460 00:29:26,999 --> 00:29:31,070 in what is becoming an all-consuming investigation. 461 00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:32,939 Let me introduce the Attorney General. 462 00:29:32,972 --> 00:29:35,141 I was pretty frightened 463 00:29:35,174 --> 00:29:41,313 when I first saw the building with the new occupancy. 464 00:29:41,347 --> 00:29:47,486 Martha Stewart Studio and Test Kitchens are on the 9th floor. 465 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:51,858 There was the razor wire. I remember looking up 466 00:29:51,891 --> 00:29:56,328 and seeing guns hanging over the rooftop. 467 00:29:56,362 --> 00:30:00,232 You could see the guns clearly over the parapets. 468 00:30:00,266 --> 00:30:01,800 This was warfare. 469 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:01,868 This was warfare. I thought, well, either we are a target, 470 00:30:01,868 --> 00:30:04,103 I thought, well, either we are a target, 471 00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:09,141 or we are protected, and it was a terrifying 472 00:30:09,175 --> 00:30:13,145 and yet comforting at the same time. 473 00:30:13,179 --> 00:30:15,147 You knew who they were when they got in the elevator. 474 00:30:15,181 --> 00:30:17,683 They were packing a weapon. 475 00:30:17,716 --> 00:30:21,320 They were extremely serious about their jobs but friendly. 476 00:30:21,353 --> 00:30:25,925 There were lots of people on that floor. 477 00:30:25,958 --> 00:30:29,695 Very busy with computers and telephones ringing 478 00:30:29,728 --> 00:30:32,264 and you can imagine what they had to, 479 00:30:32,298 --> 00:30:34,901 they were trying to figure out who the heck did this. 480 00:30:37,169 --> 00:30:40,839 The viable leads coming in, you know, trite expression, 481 00:30:40,873 --> 00:30:42,641 drinking from a fire hose? 482 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:44,210 We were drinking from fire hoses 483 00:30:44,243 --> 00:30:47,246 from every fire department in the nation, it felt like. 484 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,248 It was a flow that would not stop. 485 00:30:49,281 --> 00:30:51,317 Keep in mind it was coming in, not only from New York, 486 00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:54,320 but all over the country. All over the world. 487 00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:03,195 I thought, God, these poor people working round the clock, 488 00:31:03,229 --> 00:31:04,396 and I felt so sorry for them 489 00:31:04,430 --> 00:31:06,132 because there was no place to buy food. 490 00:31:06,165 --> 00:31:10,602 New York was basically shut down for a while after 9/11. 491 00:31:10,636 --> 00:31:13,940 I thought, well maybe they'll allow me to bring down 492 00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:16,108 everything that we make in the test kitchen. 493 00:31:16,142 --> 00:31:18,410 Why not give it to these hardworking people 494 00:31:18,444 --> 00:31:21,313 who are basically living on the second floor? 495 00:31:21,347 --> 00:31:23,983 So, one day, Martha Stewart is coming up the ramp 496 00:31:24,016 --> 00:31:25,484 and she said, 497 00:31:25,517 --> 00:31:27,086 "I just want you guys to have something." 498 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:29,355 It was a standard size, you know, round, 499 00:31:29,388 --> 00:31:31,657 birthday type of cake, layer cake. 500 00:31:31,690 --> 00:31:34,360 And she said, "I just really appreciate all you people, 501 00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:35,361 what you're doing." 502 00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:39,098 So, we would take down food and, 503 00:31:39,131 --> 00:31:40,699 and see the smiles and the, 504 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:45,071 and the weariness of the workers there on that floor. 505 00:31:45,104 --> 00:31:47,739 Everybody thanked her 506 00:31:47,773 --> 00:31:51,677 and she didn't try to decorate the garage either. 507 00:31:51,710 --> 00:31:54,513 I would have loved to have made over that garage. 508 00:31:54,546 --> 00:31:56,815 I probably would have made them some lounges 509 00:31:56,848 --> 00:32:01,220 where they could have kitchens where they could eat. 510 00:32:01,253 --> 00:32:03,189 I would have probably put better lighting in there. 511 00:32:03,222 --> 00:32:04,790 It was a pretty dingy place. 512 00:32:04,823 --> 00:32:06,058 You have to have some humor 513 00:32:06,092 --> 00:32:09,128 to get your through these awful events. 514 00:32:09,161 --> 00:32:10,796 They keep you sane, 515 00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:13,332 so Martha Stewart was very, very nice. 516 00:32:16,802 --> 00:32:20,606 As we were finding out about all of the skyjackers. 517 00:32:20,639 --> 00:32:24,876 Our thought at the time was we have to identify 518 00:32:24,910 --> 00:32:27,013 all of them and their links. 519 00:32:27,013 --> 00:32:30,082 So, part of the installation at the garage was these secure, 520 00:32:30,116 --> 00:32:33,885 classified phonelines and they proved to be vital. 521 00:32:36,222 --> 00:32:38,057 It would ring several times a day 522 00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:40,626 and I'd be on the phone with Ali Soufan, 523 00:32:40,659 --> 00:32:44,796 one of the agents who was assigned over in Yemen. 524 00:32:44,830 --> 00:32:47,166 On 9/11, I was in the embassy 525 00:32:47,199 --> 00:32:51,203 in Sana'a investigating the "USS Cole." 526 00:32:51,237 --> 00:32:55,507 Less than a year before 9/11, the "USS Cole," 527 00:32:55,541 --> 00:32:58,577 an American Destroyer, is refueling in Yemen. 528 00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:00,479 The bomb was carried by a small boat 529 00:33:00,512 --> 00:33:02,381 that helped the destroyer moor in the harbor. 530 00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:06,585 The tiny fishing boat, the men on board waving and smiling 531 00:33:06,618 --> 00:33:11,557 pulls up beside the destroyer and explodes. 532 00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:14,793 The bomb rips a hole in the side of the warship, 533 00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:19,498 killing 17 American sailors and nearly sinking the "Cole." 534 00:33:22,134 --> 00:33:24,703 You see the attack on the "USS Cole." 535 00:33:24,736 --> 00:33:29,141 This is critical because you start to see a picture 536 00:33:29,175 --> 00:33:32,344 come into richer focus. 537 00:33:32,378 --> 00:33:34,613 Who are the people who blew up the "Cole"? 538 00:33:34,646 --> 00:33:37,149 Another one. Another plane just hit! 539 00:33:37,183 --> 00:33:39,918 Oh, my God. Another plane has just hit. 540 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,220 It hit another building. 541 00:33:41,253 --> 00:33:42,988 We were trying to call headquarters 542 00:33:43,089 --> 00:33:44,856 and see what was going on in New York 543 00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:48,527 and basically said you need to stay, 544 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,563 and I was really annoyed. I mean, you want us to stay. 545 00:33:51,597 --> 00:33:55,401 The "USS Cole" can wait. You know, we're under attack 546 00:33:55,434 --> 00:33:57,103 and the answer from headquarters 547 00:33:57,136 --> 00:33:59,505 was it's not about the "USS Cole." 548 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,108 It's about what just happened here. 549 00:34:02,108 --> 00:34:04,243 You go to the embassy and so and so 550 00:34:04,276 --> 00:34:07,413 will give you what you need to know. 551 00:34:09,615 --> 00:34:12,984 We started to identify a number of the individuals 552 00:34:13,018 --> 00:34:15,921 that were on the various planes. 553 00:34:15,954 --> 00:34:17,723 As we developed that, 554 00:34:17,756 --> 00:34:21,660 we were able to send those names over to Ali Soufan 555 00:34:21,693 --> 00:34:24,463 who was dealing with jailed extremists. 556 00:34:27,366 --> 00:34:31,637 I went with my CIA colleague in his car back to the embassy. 557 00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:33,505 We go to his office, and he gave me 558 00:34:33,539 --> 00:34:35,541 a manilla envelope and I opened it 559 00:34:35,574 --> 00:34:40,679 and I could not believe what I was seeing. 560 00:34:40,712 --> 00:34:44,250 Khalid Mihdhar and Nawaf Hazmi, who are connected to people 561 00:34:44,283 --> 00:34:46,718 who are involved in the "USS Cole," 562 00:34:46,752 --> 00:34:50,189 had been in the United States. 563 00:34:50,222 --> 00:34:52,291 They were identified as hijackers. 564 00:34:52,324 --> 00:34:55,327 Two people who were on the planes, 565 00:34:55,361 --> 00:34:57,929 we're looking for them in Yemen. 566 00:34:57,963 --> 00:35:00,999 Our government knew that they were in San Diego. 567 00:35:04,536 --> 00:35:06,438 What Ali Soufan has just learned 568 00:35:06,472 --> 00:35:08,940 but no one in the garage yet knows 569 00:35:08,974 --> 00:35:12,744 is that the CIA has been tracking two of the hijackers 570 00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:15,013 for nearly a year. 571 00:35:15,046 --> 00:35:18,717 The CIA, however, had yet to process the information 572 00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:21,187 and so failed to share it 573 00:35:21,187 --> 00:35:25,191 with the FBI in time to locate the hijackers. 574 00:35:25,224 --> 00:35:29,661 I just threw the file back on his desk. 575 00:35:29,695 --> 00:35:36,001 The only thing I can do is just get out of his office, 576 00:35:36,034 --> 00:35:38,370 straight to the bathroom across the hall 577 00:35:38,404 --> 00:35:41,207 and puking my guts out 578 00:35:41,207 --> 00:35:43,209 until one of my colleagues 579 00:35:43,209 --> 00:35:47,846 came in and said, "Buddy, you okay?" 580 00:35:47,879 --> 00:35:50,782 I remember, I just looked at him and said, "They knew. 581 00:35:50,816 --> 00:35:53,219 They knew everything." 582 00:35:53,219 --> 00:35:56,822 The CIA would also acknowledge failing to put the Al Qaeda 583 00:35:56,855 --> 00:36:01,227 operatives on the terrorist watch list sooner. 584 00:36:06,232 --> 00:36:09,401 Days after the attacks, the Yemenis reveal 585 00:36:09,435 --> 00:36:13,038 that they too are hiding something extraordinary. 586 00:36:13,071 --> 00:36:16,708 When he walked into the room, he wouldn't even look at me. 587 00:36:16,742 --> 00:36:21,413 He literally took his chair and turned it towards the wall. 588 00:36:21,447 --> 00:36:25,284 Ali Soufan is brought to meet a secret prisoner. 589 00:36:25,317 --> 00:36:29,488 A terrorist whose alias is Abu Jandal. 590 00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:32,424 He won't even recognize that I'm a Muslim. 591 00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:36,061 He didn't believe me but a little bit by a little bit, 592 00:36:36,094 --> 00:36:39,431 the relationship was a little bit better. 593 00:36:39,465 --> 00:36:43,669 He start lecturing us a lot about Islam, about the world. 594 00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:49,908 About Bin Laden. About revolutions. 595 00:36:49,941 --> 00:36:53,612 The reason the Yemenis have been hiding Abu Jandal-- 596 00:36:53,645 --> 00:36:58,617 he is Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. 597 00:36:58,650 --> 00:37:01,653 Soufan shows Abu Jandal photos 598 00:37:01,687 --> 00:37:04,189 of the World Trade Center attacks, 599 00:37:04,290 --> 00:37:06,392 but he adds a lie-- 600 00:37:06,425 --> 00:37:11,096 that hundreds of Muslim Yemenis died in the towers. 601 00:37:11,129 --> 00:37:15,100 Those people were on the planes that hit 602 00:37:15,133 --> 00:37:17,969 the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 603 00:37:18,003 --> 00:37:22,841 Those people murdered all these Yemenis. 604 00:37:25,311 --> 00:37:28,814 So, he was totally taken back. 605 00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:32,651 He put his head between his hands, 606 00:37:32,684 --> 00:37:34,520 and he starts shaking and he said, 607 00:37:34,553 --> 00:37:37,723 "I need five minutes." 608 00:37:37,756 --> 00:37:40,326 So, we went out of the room. 609 00:37:40,326 --> 00:37:45,397 We left him in the room, and I walked in again 610 00:37:45,431 --> 00:37:49,635 and then he said, "I think the Sheikh one's crazy. 611 00:37:49,668 --> 00:37:52,938 What do you want to know?" 612 00:37:52,971 --> 00:37:57,776 I said, "We have a photobook. Some people probably you know, 613 00:37:57,809 --> 00:38:00,479 some people I'm sure you don't know." 614 00:38:00,512 --> 00:38:02,581 He identified Mohamed Atta. 615 00:38:02,614 --> 00:38:04,350 He identified about seven people 616 00:38:04,350 --> 00:38:07,953 who later were identified all as hijackers, 617 00:38:07,986 --> 00:38:10,789 giving us their nationality, 618 00:38:10,822 --> 00:38:15,894 their alias, and a lot of details about them. 619 00:38:15,927 --> 00:38:19,998 That was significant. 620 00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:23,369 This is the evidence we needed. 621 00:38:23,369 --> 00:38:25,571 Bin Laden's bodyguard has now 622 00:38:25,604 --> 00:38:29,107 given the FBI absolute proof, 623 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:34,212 connecting Al Qaeda to the World Trade Center attack. 624 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:37,282 We understand that it's really important to pass 625 00:38:37,383 --> 00:38:38,850 this information to New York. 626 00:38:41,553 --> 00:38:44,189 Kenny, it's Bin Laden. 100 percent. 627 00:38:46,725 --> 00:38:50,228 When those first clues in Yemen 628 00:38:50,261 --> 00:38:54,400 and Abu Jandal's revelations to Ali Soufan 629 00:38:54,433 --> 00:38:56,635 come into the garage, you know, 630 00:38:56,668 --> 00:38:57,936 the people who are piecing together 631 00:38:57,969 --> 00:39:00,906 everything from everywhere say, okay. 632 00:39:00,939 --> 00:39:03,675 This is big. This has meaning. 633 00:39:03,709 --> 00:39:05,276 Seven of the hijackers 634 00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:08,747 were identified as Qaeda operatives by the bodyguard. 635 00:39:11,550 --> 00:39:14,686 The breakthroughs that occurred in those interviews 636 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:21,427 was really putting the key into the lock of the secrets of 9/11 637 00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:23,161 and turning it. 638 00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:26,097 Abu Jandal was that. 639 00:39:26,131 --> 00:39:27,833 - Turning to what's now a sprawling 640 00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:28,934 criminal investigation 641 00:39:28,967 --> 00:39:31,069 of the coordinated suicide attacks, 642 00:39:31,102 --> 00:39:32,904 investigators have made quick work 643 00:39:32,938 --> 00:39:35,240 of identifying the skyjackers. 644 00:39:35,273 --> 00:39:38,444 So, Abu Jandal was identifying people left and right 645 00:39:38,477 --> 00:39:42,080 and all the information was coming straight to New York 646 00:39:42,113 --> 00:39:45,016 and New York were acting upon this information, 647 00:39:45,050 --> 00:39:48,353 putting wanted posters for some individuals 648 00:39:48,454 --> 00:39:50,722 that we identified and following 649 00:39:50,756 --> 00:39:53,692 on a lot of the leads that we were generating. 650 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:57,896 The board became a lot more refined as time went on. 651 00:39:57,929 --> 00:40:00,031 As more information came in that 652 00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:02,901 we could permanently affix up there 653 00:40:02,934 --> 00:40:05,070 in terms of a flow chart. 654 00:40:05,103 --> 00:40:06,538 You wanted to get back after you did your leads 655 00:40:06,572 --> 00:40:08,840 and write up your investigation and document it 656 00:40:08,874 --> 00:40:10,341 so that the case squad 657 00:40:10,375 --> 00:40:13,144 could have that information as soon as possible 658 00:40:13,178 --> 00:40:15,547 because something you're holding may be a missing piece 659 00:40:15,581 --> 00:40:17,148 and you don't know it. 660 00:40:17,182 --> 00:40:19,384 You don't know what you have. They know what they need. 661 00:40:22,287 --> 00:40:25,323 This grind went on for, like, 60 days 662 00:40:25,356 --> 00:40:29,127 before a day off, which is, you know, it was okay for me 663 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:30,496 'cause I was in the zone. 664 00:40:30,529 --> 00:40:31,730 I wanted to be with my peers. 665 00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:33,465 I wanted to be with other FBI agents. 666 00:40:36,802 --> 00:40:38,303 The leads from 9/11 667 00:40:38,336 --> 00:40:42,874 which is opening entire new books into Al Qaeda 668 00:40:42,908 --> 00:40:44,676 that had never been cracked before 669 00:40:44,710 --> 00:40:47,946 including the recruitment of English-speaking people 670 00:40:47,979 --> 00:40:50,649 to come to flight schools. 671 00:40:50,682 --> 00:40:52,851 In terms of connecting the dots, 672 00:40:52,884 --> 00:40:54,586 who were these people who flew the planes 673 00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:56,755 and how did they learn to fly? 674 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:59,625 With whom were they associated when they're in the country. 675 00:40:59,658 --> 00:41:01,359 We realized pretty quickly 676 00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:03,228 there's an awful lot of flight schools 677 00:41:03,261 --> 00:41:06,632 that can teach you to fly a commercial airliner 678 00:41:06,665 --> 00:41:08,299 and of those flight schools, 679 00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:12,303 a lot of them had a lot of Mideastern males as students. 680 00:41:12,337 --> 00:41:16,675 We need to know what else is happening. 681 00:41:16,708 --> 00:41:18,844 Who else in involved? 682 00:41:18,877 --> 00:41:22,180 Who else is a sleeper cell somewhere, 683 00:41:22,213 --> 00:41:24,783 waiting for the instructions to attack? 684 00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:28,219 Pull back, pull back. All the way to the green bar. 685 00:41:34,425 --> 00:41:37,328 The thing that struck me so odd when I went into the garage 686 00:41:37,362 --> 00:41:40,065 was that I smelled, like, gas and oil and rubber 687 00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:41,432 and all the things that, 688 00:41:41,466 --> 00:41:43,569 you know, would typically find in a garage 689 00:41:43,602 --> 00:41:46,337 and you're among all these computer terminals 690 00:41:46,371 --> 00:41:50,341 and FBI people setting leads and covering leads. 691 00:41:50,375 --> 00:41:53,745 Leads are pouring in from all over the world 692 00:41:53,779 --> 00:41:55,814 but one of the most critical 693 00:41:55,847 --> 00:42:00,619 comes from inside the FBI itself. 694 00:42:00,652 --> 00:42:04,089 We had been pushing to our management in Minneapolis 695 00:42:04,122 --> 00:42:06,191 to let New York know 696 00:42:06,224 --> 00:42:09,895 we had a subject who had to be connected to the attacks. 697 00:42:23,041 --> 00:42:24,610 When I got to New York, 698 00:42:24,610 --> 00:42:29,748 I immediately went to the garage ready to brief agents 699 00:42:29,781 --> 00:42:32,217 and prosecutors on Mr. Moussaoui. 700 00:42:34,252 --> 00:42:38,056 Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen. 701 00:42:38,089 --> 00:42:40,158 He has been in flight school in Minnesota 702 00:42:40,191 --> 00:42:43,328 until weeks before 9/11. 703 00:42:43,361 --> 00:42:47,132 When the FBI is alerted to his strange behavior, 704 00:42:47,165 --> 00:42:51,502 agents arrest him on immigration charges. 705 00:42:51,536 --> 00:42:57,142 Zacarias Moussaoui was taking flying lessons, 706 00:42:57,175 --> 00:43:00,979 but it raised concern by the instructor 707 00:43:01,012 --> 00:43:03,314 is that he just wanted to know how to fly. 708 00:43:03,348 --> 00:43:06,685 He really didn't want to learn everything there was 709 00:43:06,718 --> 00:43:08,787 about manning an airplane. 710 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:12,858 This revelation about Moussaoui is conveyed to Ali Soufan 711 00:43:12,891 --> 00:43:14,125 over in Yemen. 712 00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:17,663 Soufan runs it past Bin Laden's bodyguard. 713 00:43:20,999 --> 00:43:25,737 Abu Jandal identified Moussaoui. 714 00:43:25,771 --> 00:43:29,174 Basically, he gave us a lot of things about him, 715 00:43:29,207 --> 00:43:32,878 his involvement in Al Qaeda. His alias in Al Qaeda. 716 00:43:32,911 --> 00:43:37,683 Now we know that this person wasn't only a crazy person 717 00:43:37,716 --> 00:43:39,785 who said, "I wanna learn how to fly, 718 00:43:39,818 --> 00:43:41,419 "but I just wanna take off. 719 00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,154 I don't care about landing." 720 00:43:44,022 --> 00:43:47,558 This guy is actually a member of Al Qaeda... 721 00:43:49,895 --> 00:43:53,098 and worked for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. 722 00:43:58,603 --> 00:44:00,972 Realizing the terrorist network in the US 723 00:44:01,006 --> 00:44:03,742 is larger than anyone imagined, 724 00:44:03,775 --> 00:44:07,378 the FBI puts even more pressure on Moussaoui. 725 00:44:07,412 --> 00:44:09,915 Mr. Moussaoui was hostile. 726 00:44:09,948 --> 00:44:12,417 We could tell he didn't like us. 727 00:44:12,450 --> 00:44:15,821 We were going to go for broke on this interview 728 00:44:15,854 --> 00:44:17,222 and so we said, 729 00:44:17,255 --> 00:44:20,425 "We're aware that you're a member of a group." 730 00:44:20,458 --> 00:44:21,727 When he heard the word group, 731 00:44:21,727 --> 00:44:23,594 that really concerned Moussaoui. 732 00:44:23,628 --> 00:44:26,832 His eyes kind of got wide. His jaw dropped. 733 00:44:26,865 --> 00:44:32,570 That also fit our concern as to were there others out there? 734 00:44:32,603 --> 00:44:37,876 Potential hijackers and/or potential support elements 735 00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:42,647 that would create a second wave. 736 00:44:44,883 --> 00:44:46,885 Or create other incidents. 737 00:44:46,918 --> 00:44:49,254 I said, "Mr. Moussaoui, you're here with us in custody 738 00:44:49,287 --> 00:44:50,588 "and you're going to remain in custody 739 00:44:50,621 --> 00:44:52,357 "but your friends who are out there 740 00:44:52,390 --> 00:44:54,625 "who are going to carry out this attack, they're not, 741 00:44:54,659 --> 00:44:57,462 "and if people are hurt, you're going to be held 742 00:44:57,495 --> 00:45:00,265 accountable by the United States government." 743 00:45:04,970 --> 00:45:07,438 Everyone was in a high state of alert. 744 00:45:07,472 --> 00:45:09,808 When's the next attack? 745 00:45:12,177 --> 00:45:13,444 Obviously, we didn't prevent this one, 746 00:45:13,478 --> 00:45:14,679 but can we prevent the next one? 747 00:45:21,286 --> 00:45:23,354 The urgency, for sure, 748 00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:25,190 was identifying co-conspirators, 749 00:45:25,223 --> 00:45:29,227 was identifying anybody who might have been working 750 00:45:29,260 --> 00:45:31,329 with Moussaoui to do the same thing. 751 00:45:31,362 --> 00:45:32,898 Who might have been financing him, 752 00:45:32,931 --> 00:45:35,033 who might have trained him. 753 00:45:35,867 --> 00:45:40,138 Was Moussaoui going to be used in a terrorist plot after that? 754 00:45:40,171 --> 00:45:41,539 I'm sure he was. 755 00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:43,608 They didn't send him here for tourism, right? 756 00:45:43,641 --> 00:45:47,445 They sent him for terrorism but again, 757 00:45:47,478 --> 00:45:49,948 he was arrested before that happened. 758 00:45:49,981 --> 00:45:51,817 That was very, very important in terms 759 00:45:51,817 --> 00:45:56,521 of establishing a real concrete connection between Bin Laden, 760 00:45:56,554 --> 00:45:59,390 Al Qaeda, and the hijackers as well. 761 00:45:59,424 --> 00:46:00,826 We're working day and night. 762 00:46:00,826 --> 00:46:03,128 We're interviewing people left and right, you know? 763 00:46:03,161 --> 00:46:06,231 We're getting significant amount of information. 764 00:46:06,264 --> 00:46:08,166 It's very important to pass it to New York. 765 00:46:11,136 --> 00:46:12,971 However, some of this intelligence 766 00:46:13,004 --> 00:46:16,041 is difficult to interpret. 767 00:46:16,074 --> 00:46:18,910 In particular, the agents struggle 768 00:46:18,944 --> 00:46:21,913 with intercepted Al Qaeda phone calls 769 00:46:21,947 --> 00:46:25,583 about a mysterious figure linked to the attacks, 770 00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:27,986 but still at large. 771 00:46:28,019 --> 00:46:30,755 And there was all this chatter, 772 00:46:30,856 --> 00:46:33,925 and part of the chatter was this guy, Mukhtar, 773 00:46:33,959 --> 00:46:36,561 which was believed to be somebody that was involved, 774 00:46:36,594 --> 00:46:38,129 but we didn't know who he was. 775 00:46:40,465 --> 00:46:42,133 To chase down this lead, 776 00:46:42,167 --> 00:46:46,037 Ali Soufan flies to a secret prison in Thailand. 777 00:46:46,071 --> 00:46:49,374 He interrogates a captured Bin Laden associate 778 00:46:49,407 --> 00:46:52,010 named Abu Zubaydah 779 00:46:52,043 --> 00:46:55,546 When hearing about this Le Mukhtar, 780 00:46:55,580 --> 00:46:58,183 the one who, whose brain flew away. 781 00:46:58,216 --> 00:47:00,351 All the time, Le Mukhtar, Le Mukhtar 782 00:47:00,385 --> 00:47:01,786 And I'm like, who is Le Mukhtar 783 00:47:01,887 --> 00:47:04,289 who is this guy whose brain flew away? 784 00:47:04,322 --> 00:47:07,725 Maybe he's Bin Laden because he went crazy after 9/11 785 00:47:07,758 --> 00:47:09,360 doing something like this. 786 00:47:09,394 --> 00:47:13,031 Soufan shows Zubaydah photos of known terrorists, 787 00:47:13,064 --> 00:47:17,368 trying to trace the Al Qaeda network from the bottom up, 788 00:47:17,402 --> 00:47:19,905 but Zubaydah is stunned. 789 00:47:21,206 --> 00:47:24,709 So, he said, "Please, brother. Don't play games with me. 790 00:47:24,742 --> 00:47:27,278 This is Mukhtar. 791 00:47:27,312 --> 00:47:31,182 This is the one who did the plane operation." 792 00:47:36,787 --> 00:47:41,059 The FBI analysts have been mishearing the name. 793 00:47:41,092 --> 00:47:46,797 Lee Mukhtar is actually Mukhtar and Mukhtar 794 00:47:46,831 --> 00:47:50,936 is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 795 00:47:50,936 --> 00:47:54,372 someone the FBI thought they knew well. 796 00:47:59,410 --> 00:48:04,182 I was like, whoa. Mukhtar. 797 00:48:04,215 --> 00:48:09,254 Le Mukhtar. I was totally shocked. 798 00:48:09,287 --> 00:48:11,156 Totally shocked because, honestly, at the time, 799 00:48:11,189 --> 00:48:13,959 we didn't even know he was a member of Al Qaeda. 800 00:48:13,959 --> 00:48:17,295 In an instant, Soufan makes a stunning connection. 801 00:48:17,328 --> 00:48:22,567 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef. 802 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,204 The mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack 803 00:48:26,237 --> 00:48:27,805 in 1993. 804 00:48:32,177 --> 00:48:34,479 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, before joining Al Qaeda, 805 00:48:34,512 --> 00:48:36,014 came to Abu Zubaydah, 806 00:48:36,047 --> 00:48:39,985 and he wanted to do an operation in the United States, 807 00:48:40,018 --> 00:48:42,053 targeting the World Trade Center 808 00:48:42,087 --> 00:48:45,723 to follow up with what Ramzi Yousef started. 809 00:48:45,756 --> 00:48:48,994 Destroying the buildings. 810 00:48:49,027 --> 00:48:52,063 And his plot was to rent 811 00:48:52,097 --> 00:48:58,769 Cessna planes and fly them into the two buildings. 812 00:48:58,803 --> 00:49:01,806 Abu Zubaydah's response was like, 813 00:49:01,839 --> 00:49:03,341 "So you break some windows. 814 00:49:03,374 --> 00:49:07,212 "At least fill the Cessna planes with explosives 815 00:49:07,245 --> 00:49:09,347 so they can do some damage." 816 00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:12,183 So, KSM liked the idea. 817 00:49:12,217 --> 00:49:14,185 Abu Zubaydah told him the only person 818 00:49:14,219 --> 00:49:18,223 who will have a capability like this is Osama Bin Laden. 819 00:49:26,031 --> 00:49:28,499 What he had done is he had taken all of Ramzi Yousef's 820 00:49:28,533 --> 00:49:31,869 plans and kind of blown the dust off them 821 00:49:31,902 --> 00:49:33,171 and brought them to Bin Laden and said, 822 00:49:33,204 --> 00:49:37,175 "They're still good plans. We can still do bad things. 823 00:49:37,208 --> 00:49:39,877 They just need the money behind them." 824 00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:41,746 And that was the genesis of 9/11. 825 00:49:50,155 --> 00:49:52,757 You know, New York will be very interested in KSM, 826 00:49:52,790 --> 00:49:56,261 so I called on a secure line, Kenny, and I said 827 00:49:56,294 --> 00:49:59,064 Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was identified 828 00:49:59,064 --> 00:50:01,699 as the mastermind of 9/11. 829 00:50:23,388 --> 00:50:26,591 In brief, Barry just hung up with Ali, 830 00:50:26,624 --> 00:50:28,025 and here's what he's provided. 831 00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:32,430 Those details were put up on the board. 832 00:50:36,834 --> 00:50:41,272 The board is finally complete. 833 00:50:41,306 --> 00:50:44,375 There is now a clear line from the original 834 00:50:44,409 --> 00:50:46,944 World Trade Center bombing 835 00:50:46,977 --> 00:50:50,448 through Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 836 00:50:50,481 --> 00:50:53,484 to Osama Bin Laden, 837 00:50:53,518 --> 00:50:58,856 and the 2,978 murders on 9/11. 838 00:51:03,128 --> 00:51:07,132 Our enemies are about to face the consequences. 839 00:51:12,803 --> 00:51:14,205 On my orders, 840 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,408 the United States military has begun strikes 841 00:51:17,442 --> 00:51:19,844 against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps 842 00:51:19,877 --> 00:51:21,812 and military installations 843 00:51:21,846 --> 00:51:26,016 of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. 844 00:51:26,050 --> 00:51:31,156 It was the best time that I ever saw 845 00:51:31,189 --> 00:51:34,925 where law enforcement came together as one. 846 00:51:39,530 --> 00:51:41,499 Good evening. It's three months to the day 847 00:51:41,532 --> 00:51:43,534 since the murderous attack on America 848 00:51:43,568 --> 00:51:45,470 and the US grand jury has issued 849 00:51:45,503 --> 00:51:48,539 the first formal criminal charges in the case. 850 00:51:48,573 --> 00:51:50,275 Attorney General John Ashcroft calls 851 00:51:50,308 --> 00:51:54,345 the 30-page indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui quote, 852 00:51:54,379 --> 00:51:56,214 "A chronical of evil." 853 00:51:56,247 --> 00:51:59,717 That humble little building on the west side highway 854 00:51:59,750 --> 00:52:03,654 was housing the most complex, important, 855 00:52:03,688 --> 00:52:06,857 largest investigation in FBI history. 856 00:52:10,761 --> 00:52:11,996 An extraordinary confession 857 00:52:12,029 --> 00:52:14,599 from the suspected mastermind of 9/11 attacks. 858 00:52:14,632 --> 00:52:16,534 According to the Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 859 00:52:16,567 --> 00:52:18,636 admitted responsibility for 9/11 860 00:52:18,669 --> 00:52:20,938 and for a string of attacks and plots, 861 00:52:20,971 --> 00:52:23,208 including plans to kill Presidents Clinton and Carter. 862 00:52:23,208 --> 00:52:25,109 What was accomplished out of that garage 863 00:52:25,210 --> 00:52:27,412 was nothing short of amazing. 864 00:52:27,445 --> 00:52:30,315 Tonight, I can report to the American people 865 00:52:30,348 --> 00:52:32,783 and to the world, the United States 866 00:52:32,817 --> 00:52:34,752 has conducted an operation that killed 867 00:52:34,785 --> 00:52:38,423 Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. 868 00:52:40,124 --> 00:52:41,692 One by one, the United State 869 00:52:41,726 --> 00:52:44,495 dealt with those responsible for 9/11. 870 00:52:49,434 --> 00:52:51,369 Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty 871 00:52:51,402 --> 00:52:55,640 to conspiring to kill Americans as part of the attacks. 872 00:52:55,673 --> 00:53:00,478 He is currently serving a life sentence without parole. 873 00:53:00,511 --> 00:53:02,313 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 874 00:53:02,347 --> 00:53:08,253 the mastermind of the attacks, remains at Guantanamo Bay. 875 00:53:08,286 --> 00:53:10,955 His trial has yet to happen. 876 00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:20,998 What began as an improvised response 877 00:53:21,031 --> 00:53:26,571 to an emergency evacuation yielded extraordinary results. 878 00:53:28,439 --> 00:53:31,108 And that was not just figuratively 879 00:53:31,141 --> 00:53:34,412 but also quite literally the start of something. 880 00:53:34,445 --> 00:53:38,616 It was a new model. 881 00:53:38,649 --> 00:53:41,886 The structure that evolved in the 26th Street Garage 882 00:53:41,919 --> 00:53:45,155 is known as the Joint Operation Center 883 00:53:45,189 --> 00:53:48,593 In FBI parlance, the JOC. 884 00:53:48,626 --> 00:53:50,928 And it has become the template 885 00:53:50,961 --> 00:53:53,964 for counterterrorism activities. 886 00:53:53,998 --> 00:53:59,537 Agencies cooperate closely, intelligence is shared quickly, 887 00:53:59,570 --> 00:54:02,907 and there is constant vigilance. 888 00:54:15,152 --> 00:54:16,754 I look at that warehouse 889 00:54:16,787 --> 00:54:21,559 and I realize its whispered role in history. 890 00:54:21,592 --> 00:54:23,093 There's no sign, 891 00:54:23,127 --> 00:54:26,163 and nobody really knows what happened in there. 892 00:54:33,671 --> 00:54:38,376 What went on after 9/11, it should forever be here 893 00:54:38,409 --> 00:54:40,044 that the largest investigation 894 00:54:40,077 --> 00:54:42,613 in the history of US law enforcement, 895 00:54:42,647 --> 00:54:44,915 if not international law enforcement, 896 00:54:44,949 --> 00:54:50,621 was run from this very rudimentary grease-lidden 897 00:54:50,655 --> 00:54:54,359 on the floor, oil-slicked garage. 898 00:54:54,359 --> 00:54:56,961 It's just an incredible feat. It really is. 899 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,803 In all the memories of the garage, 900 00:55:05,836 --> 00:55:09,574 both stressful but also enlightened, like hopeful. 901 00:55:09,607 --> 00:55:11,609 It was all the best of everybody 902 00:55:11,642 --> 00:55:12,910 was here in the garage. 903 00:55:12,943 --> 00:55:16,080 It was the investigators, support, the people. 904 00:55:23,087 --> 00:55:24,789 And that's what was so great about you know, 905 00:55:24,822 --> 00:55:28,092 everything in the garage was just work 906 00:55:28,125 --> 00:55:29,560 and trying to solve this, 907 00:55:29,594 --> 00:55:32,597 you know, most heinous crime ever, right? 908 00:55:32,630 --> 00:55:34,231 Just unspeakable, really, 909 00:55:34,264 --> 00:55:36,567 but everybody just sort of put aside the unspeakable 910 00:55:36,601 --> 00:55:38,403 and got it done. 911 00:55:38,403 --> 00:55:41,939 Putting aside the unthinkable and getting it done 912 00:55:41,972 --> 00:55:45,443 is what FBI agents are trained to do. 913 00:55:45,476 --> 00:55:48,779 Now, after two decades in Afghanistan, 914 00:55:48,813 --> 00:55:51,015 American troops are out. 915 00:55:51,048 --> 00:55:55,119 The threat based on history came true. 916 00:55:55,152 --> 00:55:57,655 Government fell in an instant. 917 00:55:57,688 --> 00:56:03,728 Taliban seized control. 918 00:56:03,761 --> 00:56:08,165 We're never going to eliminate terrorism in our lifetime. 919 00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:11,301 Just like the FBI's mission never ends. 920 00:56:11,335 --> 00:56:14,805 They'll regroup, find new sources 921 00:56:14,839 --> 00:56:16,841 and stay ahead of the terrorists 922 00:56:16,874 --> 00:56:20,478 as they have for the past 20 years. 923 00:56:20,511 --> 00:56:25,483 Preserving our safety in an increasingly complicated world. 924 00:56:36,761 --> 00:56:40,731 One Sunday, I was walking up the street near my house. 925 00:56:40,765 --> 00:56:42,467 There was this little church on the Upper East Side 926 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:47,337 and I remember walking and they were singing hymns 927 00:56:47,371 --> 00:56:51,576 and I was like, they're happy. And they should be. 928 00:56:51,609 --> 00:56:55,913 They should be not-- it's okay to be joyful 929 00:56:55,946 --> 00:56:59,349 and sing in church. 930 00:56:59,383 --> 00:57:03,621 And I remember feeling like taking a minute 931 00:57:03,654 --> 00:57:08,225 and sitting outside and listening to the hymns. 932 00:57:14,064 --> 00:57:17,367 'Cause it was, I think the first time 933 00:57:17,401 --> 00:57:20,304 I was reconnecting with New York. 934 00:57:20,337 --> 00:57:24,742 First time I was seeing my fellow New Yorkers 935 00:57:24,775 --> 00:57:27,011 you know, being New Yorkers, 936 00:57:27,044 --> 00:57:30,515 and singing a hymn. 937 00:57:30,548 --> 00:57:31,716 You know? 938 00:57:31,749 --> 00:57:33,818 And they were joyful inside the church, 939 00:57:33,851 --> 00:57:36,621 so, for me, it was rewarding 940 00:57:36,654 --> 00:57:39,223 'cause it was like, it's okay, you know? 941 00:57:39,256 --> 00:57:42,259 Humanity is here. 942 00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:43,528 It's gonna be okay.